melt

melt is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See 2d Milt. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. See 2d Milt.
2. verb. To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
3. verb. Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
4. intransitive verb. To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
5. intransitive verb. To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
6. intransitive verb. Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.
7. intransitive verb. To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.
8. intransitive verb. To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.
9. noun. the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid

   "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"

   "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"

   Synonyms: melting, thaw, thawing

10. verb. become less intense and fade away gradually

    "her resistance melted under his charm"

    "her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"

    Synonyms: disappear, evaporate

11. verb. become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly

    "The scene begins to fade"

    "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"

    Synonyms: fade

12. verb. become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial

    "With age, he mellowed"

    Synonyms: mellow

13. verb. become or cause to become soft or liquid

    "The sun melted the ice"

    "the ice thawed"

    Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw

14. verb. lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually

    "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene"

    Synonyms: meld

15. verb. reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating

    "melt butter"

    "melt down gold"

    Synonyms: run

Synonyms

melting, thaw, thawing, disappear, evaporate, fade, mellow, dethaw, dissolve, unfreeze, unthaw, meld, run

Common word forms

melts, melted, melter, melting, meltable

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